Improving Applicant Response Rate

If you've had few or no responses to your job posting, there are a few steps you can take to improve your response rate.

1. Fill in all the information for your company profile and job postings. Students are much more likely to apply to a detailed job posted by a company with detailed information in Handshake. 

• Learn How to build an employer brand early talent loves.
• Edit your company profile by following the steps in How do I edit my company information?.
• Check out our 5 tips to improve your job description to attract early talent.

2. Consider posting your job to more institutions to widen your talent pool. 

• Learn How to Post a Job to Additional Institutions.
• Learn more about Institution Network Management: Institution Recommendations.

3. Search and message qualified students directly. 

• • Utilise our Search Students Feature.
  • Learn more about How to send a student a message.
  • Check out our Messaging Best Practices.

4. Lastly, if you've done all you can and your numbers are still lower than you'd like, reach out to the Career Services Centre at each institution, as they may have some thoughts on the lack of applicants, or suggestions to attract them.

• • • Find the contact information for a institution's Career Services by clicking Institutions from the left navigation bar, and then clicking on the name of the institution in your Favourites or Your Employer institution list.